Welcome to the Faculty Delegate Assembly

Welcome to the Faculty Delegate Assembly's website. We are keenly interested in your suggestions and updates to this new effort to provide a portal to Hunter College faculty resources. We are especially interested in your ideas for additional resources we can list or link to under the Faculty Matters tab. Please send your suggestions to fda@hunter.cuny.edu.

Coffee Service Reopening

We are proud to announce that after a semester-long hiatus this past spring, the FDA has reopened its coffee service to faculty. The coffee service will be open from 2-6 Monday-Wednesday and Friday. Currently, the coffee service will not operate on Thursdays but faculty are welcome to use the lounge as a quiet place to work from 2-6. (Please do not use the lounge for office hours, students are not allowed inside.) If the lounge or coffee service is closed for an event, we will update below.

Introducing our new host, Victoria Rainford, a Hunter Quest student who plans on pursuing a career in childhood education with a concentration in mathematics.

Changes to Coffee Service/Lounge Closings

Wednesday 9/13: Coffee service ends at 4:30, Faculty Social begins at 5:30 following the Senate Meeting

Monday 9/18: Coffee service/lounge closes at 5pm

Wednesday 9/27: Coffee service/lounge closes at 4pm

Thursday 9/28: Lounge closes at 4pm for an event

FDA General Meetings (1203HE; 1:00—3:00)

Fall, 2017September 27October 18November 15December 13

Spring, 2018February 21March 21April 18May 16

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Dear colleagues

Please circulate this

The budget proposal that is being shaped in the White House promises to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities. There are any number of groups such as CREDO which have on line protests. Several professional organizations such as the American Historical Assn have asked members to send letters supporting the Endowment.

The Endowment even survived the Reagan years (by some miracle) and is one of the few areas of federal spending that supports the kinds of scholarship which is not covered by STEM type grants.

NEH summer grants and full year grants provided many CUNY faculty with the means to conduct scholarly work in history, literature, philosophy, religion, linguistics, political science, etc. The NEH has survived politicization (its board in the 1980s. was largely filled with right wing academics) and has supported decades of younger faculty since its creation.

If you can contact your representatives in congress directly, that would be best

Sandi Cooperprofessor emerita, History CSI and the GCformer chair, UFS

Dear Colleagues:

Chancellor Milliken released CUNY's Strategic Framework earlier today. Much of what it encompasses we have already seen in the Master Plan. At our most recent UFS Executive Meeting this past Tuesday we discussed a draft version with SVC Rabinowitz and relayed our concerns, amid other feedback, that the document did not specifically state the need for more full-time faculty. While we had numerous comments, we made clear that full time faculty was at the forefront of our concerns.

The Chancellor responded by editing the document to explicitly state the need for more full time faculty.

We have been told that the Strategic Framework is a living document, that it will be reviewed regularly and that feedback is welcome. You can read the document at the link below and leave feedback. I encourage you to read it and comment on it. The Chancellor will attend our February 7th plenary and you will have a further opportunity then to ask questions and provide input.

John Wallach is a classically trained political theorist (Ph.D. in Politics, Program in Political Philosophy from Princeton University, 1981) attuned to historical, contemporary, and practical issues in political thought. He mostly teaches courses in ancient and contemporary political theory, focusing on political ethics, democratic theory, and the political theory of human rights. Before coming to Hunter in 1991, Wallach was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and Vassar College. His publications include The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (Penn State Press, 2001); a co-edited volume (with J. Peter Euben and Josiah Ober), Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (Cornell, 1994.) Currently, he is finishing a book of historical and theoretical studies on democracy and the good. Wallach has been a Liberal Arts Fellow in Political Science at Harvard Law School (1998-1999), recipient of a NEH Fellowship for College and University Teachers (2003-2004), and Director of a NEH Institute for College & University Teachers at The Graduate Center (Summer, 2006), on the subject of "Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspective

Vice-President: Jochen Albrecht (Geography)

Jochen is an associate professor in the Geography Department. He joined Hunter College in 2005 and has been a member of the Hunter as well as the University Faculty Senate for the past six years. Following his interests, he serves on numerous committees both at the Hunter and the CUNY level (assessment, scholarly communications, computing/IT, educational technologies, etc.). He is an active researcher with 50 peer-reviewed publications and twenty years of teaching experience, including increasingly hybrid and online courses. He is running for a position on the FDA Executive Committee because he is concerned about the constant encroachment on the role of faculty at Hunter and CUNY and feel that the FDA needs all the support it can get to strengthen faculty representation.

Secretary: Debbie Sonu (Curriculum and Teaching)

Debbie Sonu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College and doctoral faculty in the Urban Education Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interests include curriculum theory and practice as it relates to urban schooling and social justice pedagogies in the United States. She has served as department representative and secretary-elect for the FDA since 2009.

Committee Members: Peter Dudek (Art)

Peter Dudek is an artist. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hunter College Art Department since 1990 where he has taught Sculpture, Drawing, Art & Current Ideas, Graduate Seminar and a Seminar in Public Art. At Hunter he has also curated several exhibitions including: Dead-Fit Beauty, Photasm and Architecture, Architecture, Architecture.

He is the Founder of the Adjunct Drinking Association, and has been active in the union concerning adjunct issues.

Past teaching experiences include the School of Visual Arts and Haverford College.

Berndatte McCauley (History)

Bernadette McCauleyis a member of the history department and teaches the U.S. survey and courses in immigration history and the history of medicine and social welfare. She serves on the Thomas Hunter Faculty Council, is a member at-large of the College Senate and has been Secretary and President of the Faculty Delegate Assembly. She graduated from Hunter College where she majored in history, received her PhD at Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for American Religion at Princeton. Her research focuses on the history of women religious and the history of caretaking and medicine; her current work examines the spirituality of American Catholic women and the paths that brought women to the religious life through the 1960’s.

The FDA passsed the following resolutions at its meeting on November 18th. The first concerns promotion to full Professor and the second to the COACHE survey.

The Faculty Delegate Assembly recognized discussion in the college regarding personnel procedures in consideration of promotion to full Professor. We encourage the college to proceed to follow the promotional schedule published by the Office of the Provost and consistent with the Charter of the college.

Be it resolved that the Faculty Delegate Assembly requests that the Hunter College Senate establish an ad hoc committee to obtain and review both qualitative and quantitative data and to report to the faculty body no later than the end of the 2015--2016 academic year.